Word of the death spread on the Internet in the days after the woman, whose surname was Yuan, was initially said to have committed suicide by jumping from a top floor or roof of the mall, called Jingwen, last Friday. Rumors on the Internet said Ms. Yuan, a migrant worker from Anhui Province, had been raped by private security guards in the mall, where she worked, and might have been thrown to her death.

A witness told The Wall Street Journal that the protest had swelled by 10 a.m. and had ended by 5 p.m., though a heavy police presence lingered on the scene. CDT’s “Sensitive Words” project also noted that photos of riot police and police helicopters had spread on Weibo, while footage of the demonstration had emerged on Tencent.

The Guardian’s Jonathan Kaiman had more on the protests:

A shopkeeper who gave his name only as Mr Li said that some police had arrived at around 10am, followed by around 200 people who paraded down the street shouting “Protest! Protest!”

The rapidly growing number of officers then closed the road for the rest of the day, he said. Photographs of the scene posted online showed hundreds of people on the street, although it was not clear how many were protesters and how many were onlookers.

One bystander said that officers had clashed with protesters, beating them and dragging them into vans.

While police said a preliminary investigation and autopsy did not indicate foul play, and that the woman did not have any interaction with other people during the hours before she fell to her death, the state-run Global Times reported that the demonstrators demanded a more open investigation:

Rumors have been circulated online that Yuan was gang raped in a enclosed room inside the building by seven security guards, which led to her suicide, or that they even pushed her out. Yuan’s mother visited the Dahongmen Police Station supervising the market but was not allowed to see the surveillance footage, some Web users said.

Leslie Hook of the Financial Times wrote that the protest, which halted traffic in southern Beijing for hours, “highlights mounting social pressures facing China’s leaders:”

The area where Ms Yuan worked is poor and is mostly populated by “outsiders” such as herself who work in the garment trading industry, according to residents. Scepticism of the police is widespread in China and many smaller protests across the country have been sparked by allegations of malpractice.

By Wednesday evening, the protest had dissipated amid heavy rain, but a large military presence was still visible, with dozens of parked buses carrying special forces, soldiers and police.

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His low-profile, opaque political agenda and seeming reluctance to outline his own policy ideas combined to make the rising political star almost invisible at the NPC meeting, China’s most important annual political event. His discreetness could be a strategy to hide his capabilities and bide his time – a self-preservation instinct that could help him grow wings before they are clipped prematurely.

If Hu does well in Guangdong, he is expected to be rewarded with membership of the Communist Party’s supreme decision-making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, in just under five years.

It is believed by many China watchers that the reason that Wang was unable to get into the Politburo Standing Committee in November was that his high-profile, reformist image was not well received by party elders.

Lau adds that Hu’s dark grey hair can “best be described as salt and pepper, with plenty of white mixed in with the grey.”  He did not have much time to get comfortable in his new seat, as a face-off broke out in early January between propaganda officials and journalists at the Southern Weekly newspaper over a rewriting of the liberal publication’s New Year greeting. And earlier this month, a police blockade around the village of Shangpu evoked memories of Wukan as residents demanded democratic elections and challenged the local village head over a disputed land deal.

Hu’s handling of these incidents offers clues about his management style, according to Reuters, as his local performance will affect his chances for promotion to the upper echelons of China’s central government. But the Diplomat’s Zachary Keck claims that Hu has backtracked on the agreed terms that ended the Southern Weekly incident, and his government’s response to the Shangpu crisis “oscillated between insufficient repression and insufficient concessions,” performances that will likely come under heavy scrutiny in Beijing:

That being said, these incidents in no way doom Hu’s future prospects in the Communist Party in the same way that stalled economic growth might. Still, if President Xi Jinping is like his predecessors his early tenure will be characterized attempts to shore up his power base. This usually includes, among other things, diminishing predecessors’ ability to exercise influence through well-placed political allies, which former President Hu Jintao has in spades.

It’s not clear if Xi Jinping will seek to diminish Hu Jintao’s influence by targeting his allies and protégés. Ling Jihua’s fate certainly suggests he might, whereas his decision to make Li Yuanchao vice president suggests he may not be all that concerned about the former president’s protégés after all.

Still, if Xi does move against the Hu Jintao-led Communist Youth League faction, Little Hu will want to avoid giving Xi any ammunition to target him directly.

Read more about Hu Chunhua via CDT.

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Reuters visited Wukan six times over the last year-and-a-half, chronicling the early protests, the uprising, its eventual triumph and now its disillusionment.

The events in Wukan focused keen attention in Beijing over a problem the central government had long underplayed – rampant land seizures across China. The government is drafting revised land management legislation for the annual parliament session in March that would require farmers – an estimated 650 million of them in China – to be adequately compensated and relocated before officials can expropriate any land.

But Wukan’s failure to overcome entrenched corruption shows how difficult it is for grassroots protest to spur lasting change in China. Towering above Wukan is a vast local, regional and national edifice of Party control and vested interests. Indeed, even the Xi administration’s push to overhaul the land seizure law faces opposition from developers, businesses and local governments that depend on property sales.

“For Wukan, amongst all the villages in China, to be able to rise up and protect their interests, then to conduct a democratic election and to become a kind of experimental ground, is significant,” said Peng Peng, a senior researcher with the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences. But the inexperience of the new leaders and their halting progress over the land issues has exposed the teething problems of nurturing village democracy in China, he added. “There can’t just be democracy, there needs to be solid administration, too.”

Resentment has simmered among Wukan villagers at their leaders’ inability to secure the return of their land, but the Financial Times reports that deputy village chief Yang Semao believes critical villagers “are not reasonable:”

In its year in office, the committee has succeeded in returning 200 hectares of land sold off by the previous village chief, Mr Yang says. But many villagers are still determined to seize property for which the deeds were transferred to factory owners and businessmen several years ago.

Confronted with persistent criticism – in painful contrast to the adulation they once enjoyed of a once remarkably united village – Mr Lin and many committee members have contemplated resigning.

“I am afraid of seeing people, afraid of hearing my doorbell ring,” Mr Lin told a Shanghai television station last month. “Why? Because whatever I do or say now, people are able to find a way to blame me.”

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At the main entrance of the village of 3,000 people, 40 police and officials stood guard, barring outside vehicles from entering. Not far away, a cloth banner read: “Strongly request legal, democratic elections.”

Shangpu’s two-storey houses, typical of the region, and low-slung family-run workshops are surrounded by fields awaiting spring planting. But the main street is lined with the wrecks of cars damaged in the clash, with glass and metal littering the ground.

Residents said they should have the right to vote both for the leader who represents them and on whether to approve a controversial proposal to transform rice fields into an industrial zone.

“This should be decided by a vote by villagers,” said one of the protest leaders, adding: “The village chief should represent our interests, but he doesn’t.”

Residents told AFP that the village chief and party head fraudulently collected signatures to facilitate the transfer of farmland to a local businessman for industrial use, and they fear they will not be properly compensated. China’s state-run Global Times reported on Monday that the county-level public security bureau arrested the village leader and eight others it claims were hired by the village leader to attack the Shangpu residents:

County authorities said that on the morning of February 22, village committee director, Li Baoyu, called police to report he was attacked in his office and injured by six masked thugs. Less than an hour later, police say, Li hired his own thugs from other villages and ordered them to attack residents of Shangpu village, said the newspaper.

According to county police the fight injured four residents and damaged at least 26 vehicles, two of which were burned. Police earlier arrested Li, and on Friday eight other assailants were detained. The police are still hunting for 10 other men.

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“We are not satisfied,” said one villager. “We removed corrupt officials to get our land back, but have received nothing, and the new village committee has not given us an explanation.”

[...]Lin Zuluan , 69, was elected head of the village committee. But now he says that, while democratic governance was worth trying, he regrets taking part in the campaign, because villagers have unrealistic expectations of their leaders.

“I am old,” Lin said. “I can’t stand the pressure and fulfil all of their expectations. I’ve gained nothing from the whole campaign; I should not have taken part in it. Democracy is something that all people should pursue, but the implementation of it should be gradual, and there should be an environment that is conducive to it. We can’t let it happen overnight.”

Lin also said the villagers were not clear about their rights and had raised “unreasonable” demands, such as asking the committee to publicly release every detail of contracts it signs.

For more on Wukan, land-grabs, or democratic reform, see prior CDT coverage.

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What we found was a hardscrabble village – Wukan is home to rice farmers and fishermen – whose leaders are struggling to deliver on the promises they made to their electorate. The electorate, meanwhile, is beginning to wonder if choosing their own leaders has made things any better.

The Wukan uprising has been declared (by the academic who advised China’s new leader Xi Jinping on his doctoral thesis) to have “historic significance” because it showed democracy and social stability could coexist in China. But the new village council remains just a tiny brick at the bottom of a vast, corrupt and authoritarian power structure. And that power structure is obsessively monitoring the democrats of Wukan.

Shortly after we met Mr. Zhang for tea to discuss the events of the last year, a thin man in dark jacket walked in through the teahouse’s open door. “Who are you? Give me your business card,” he shouted, grabbing my shoulder. When I asked him to give me his own card first, he released his grip on me, handed Mr. Zhang a handwritten note and walked out without getting my name. “He’s a police informant,” Mr. Zhang said with the shrug of someone who sees such people every day.

The system is pushing back against Wukan’s uprising in subtler ways, too. Members of the seven-person village committee (only the village chief, Lin Zuluan, is a Communist Party member) say they’ve hit a wall in their efforts to reclaim villagers’ land that was illegally sold to real estate developers by the previous committee.

The shine has reportedly worn off for the members of Wukan’s village committee, who were elected after villagers engaged in a standoff with police and provincial officials over illegal land grabs in late 2011. Villagers held a small demonstration in September, and one village official resigned in October 2012 over the lack of progress in resolving the grievances which had sparked the protests.

MacKinnon and photographer John Lehmann have chosen Wukan as the start of The China Diaries, “a journey of discovery overland through China by the Globe and Mail,” where they will seek to roughly retrace Mao’s Long March by rail over the next few weeks.

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The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

11 February 2007, 23:27:07

Concerning the fire that occurred in the Yeosu Foreigner Protection Center on Chonnam Island, South Korea

Concerning the fire that occurred in the Yeosu Foreigner Protection Center on Chonnam Island, South Korea, all websites are only to reprint Xinhua copy, close news trackers, do not reprint corresponding images, do not issue it on the main page of websites and the important news section of the news center.

11 February 2007, 23:28:20

Delete the “Joint Statement concerning Sina Blog Deleting Posts” of He Weifang and others

Concerning the “Joint Statement concerning Sina Blog Deleting Posts” of He Weifang and others, this may not be posted in blogs and forums on any website without exception, where it is present, delete it.

12 February 2007, 17:21:10

Notice concerning setting up an advance link for the People’s Bank of China Director Assistant Yi Gang’s conducting an online interview on a steady monetary policy

The China Government Net will, between about 15:00 and 16:30 on 13 February, invite the Director Assistance of the People’s Bank of China, Yi Gang, for an online interview concerning a steady monetary policy, Sina, Sohu, Netease and other main commercial websites are requested to set up an advance notice link (www.gov.cn/zxft/ft3/) at 9:00 on 13 February in the lower part of the important news section of news centers, and timely reprint reports of the interview content.

13 February 2007, 10:13

All websites, concerning reports on the traditional Year of the Pig, it is not permitted to set up special subjects of the type of “Talking Pigs in the Pig Year” without exception, pay attention to letting pictures or images of “Pigs” appear less in reporting, pages with reports involving the “Pig Year” must avoid advertising related to Islam.

13 February 2007, 13:51

All websites: Please uniformly close the text message recommendation window at 14:00 today, only maintain the voting window. Please acknowledge receipt!

14 February 2007, 17:43

All websites: Please do not let He Weifang, Pu Zhiqiang, Xiao Han or Xu Zhiyong open a blog on your websites.

22 February 2007: 23:32:29

Delete the text on 3000 people jointly signing their name to strongly call upon the National People’s Congress to make a decision: correct the privatization of state-owned enterprises, forums, blogs, and other interactive segments are not to discuss this.

17 February 2007, 11:12:29

All websites, please pay attention: Do not reprint negative reports concerning the text message selection event; negative discourse concerning the text message selection event may not be disseminated on forums or blogs; manage trackers for corresponding reports well, do not let negative discourse emerge.

17 February 2007, 10:38:41

Please maintain the special subject of the text message event; put it on the second line of the main page of websites, and the third or fourth line of the important news section; wait for notification on when to remove it.

All websites: Please continue to maintain the special subject on the text message selection event; put it on the second line of the main page of websites daily, and on the third or fourth line of the important news section of the news center; you must absolutely wait for clear notification to remove it.

16 February 2007, 17:31:43

All websites: At present, the State Post Bureau is conducting post reform, and is currently researching new rules for express delivery statistics, all websites are requested to not set up special subjects for these two topics, and not to put corresponding reports in the important news section. Websites who have already set up special subjects are requested to push the special subject to the back stage.

16 February 2007, 08:42:29

We salute an early year to everyone, and wish everyone to have a good year.

(1) The first contact person must ensure that their mobile phone is on 24 hours, all websites’ duty telephones, MSN and RTX must remain online for 24 hours, propaganda management service platforms must ensure someone is on duty.

(2) It is necessary to send many articles building an atmosphere of holiday joy, happiness, and auspiciousness, proposing a civilized, healthy, and upward online mood, which fully reflect the richness and variety of the popular masses’ material and cultural lives and the progress that has been incessantly obtained in building a Socialist spiritual civilization.

(3) It is necessary to earnestly implement the “Internet News Information Service Management Regulations” and strictly standardize news sources, it is prohibited to use articles from small newspapers and periodicals in violation of regulations, and it is strictly prohibited to reprint information from foreign media; prevent playing up of negative news influencing social stability; reports concerning sudden or sensitive incidents must be based on Xinhua or People’s Daily content.

(4) It is necessary to strengthen management over information on forums, trackers, blogs, chat rooms, and text messages; news trackers must be closed on reports concerning sudden or sensitive incidents or mass incidents; forums, trackers, blogs, chat rooms, and other columns that are not managed by anyone must timely cease refreshing.

(5) Do website technology protection well, ensure anti-distortion, anti-attack, anti-suspension, prepare security plans, where problems are discovered, deal with them timely, and resume service speedily.

(6) Concerning major sudden incidents in Beijing, notify our office for agreement before issuance.

(7) During the holiday period, contact us at all times if there is something, we are also online 24 hours.

28 February 2007, 18:19

(1) Concerning the matter of Huarui Company having raised an administrative lawsuit with the National Development and Reform Commission concerning the overall development of hydroelectricity in the middle reaches of the Jinsha River, there are to be no reports without exception, forums, blogs, and other interactive segments may also not discuss this.

(2) Concerning the matter of First Steel Company transferring shares of Peruvian iron mines, there are to be no reports without exception, forums, blogs and other interactive segments may also not discuss this.

28 February 2007, 19:12

All websites: Please clean up negative posts concerning Premier Wen Jiabao’s text talking about the tasks during the primary stage of Socialism and our country’s foreign policy.

2007年2月北京网管办发出的禁令（四）
2007-02-11 23:27:07

关于韩国全南道丽水外国人保护所发生火灾事

关于韩国全南道丽水外国人保护所发生火灾事，各网站只转新华社稿件，关闭新闻跟贴，不转载相关图片,不发网站首页和新闻中心要闻区。

2007-02-11 23:28:20

删除贺卫方等人”关于新浪博客删贴的联合声明”

有关贺卫方等人”关于新浪博客删贴的联合声明”各网站一律不得在博客和论坛中贴发，已有的删除。

2007-02-12 17:21:1

关于做好中国人民银行行长助理易纲就稳健的货币政策进行在线访谈的预告链接的通知

中国政府网将于2月13日下午15：00-16：30约请中国人民银行行长助理易纲就稳健的货币政策进行在线访谈，请新浪、搜狐、网易等主要商业网 站在2月13日9：00前在新闻中心要闻区下部做好在线访谈的预告链接（WWW.gov.cn/zxft/ft3/）,并及时转载报道访谈内容。

07年2月13日10时13分

各网:关于传统猪年的报道,一律不得做”猪年话猪”一类的专题,在报道中尽量少出现有关”猪”的图画及形象,涉及”猪年”报道的页面要回避与伊斯兰教有关的广告.

07年2月13日13时51分

各网:请在今天14时统一关闭推荐短信的窗口,只保留投票的窗口。收到请回复！

07年2月14日17时43分

各网:请不要给贺卫方、浦志强、萧瀚、许志永四人在各自网站开博客。

2007-02-22 23:32:29

三千人联名强烈吁请全国人大做出决议：纠正国企私有化一文删除，论坛、博客等互动环节不讨论。

2007-02-17 11:12:29

各网请注意: 不要转载有关短信评比活动的负面报道; 有关短信评比活动的负面言论不要在论坛\博客中传播; 管理好相关报道的跟帖,不要出现负面言论.

2007-02-17 10:38:41

请保留短信活动专题;放网站首页二条、要闻区第三、四条位置;何时撤下等通知.

各网: 请继续保留短信评比活动的专题; 每天挂在网站首页二条位置,挂在新闻中心要闻区三、四条的位置; 一定要等到明确通知后,再撤.

2007-02-16 17:31:43

各网:目前国家邮政局正在进行邮政改革，并正在研究快递统计新规,请各网不要就这两个题材设立专题，相关报道不放要闻区。已经开设专题的网站，请将专题压到后台。

2007-02-16 08:42:29

给大家拜个早年 祝我们都过个好年

1、第一通知人必须保证手机24小时开机，各网站值班电话、MSN、RTX必须保证24小时在线，宣传管理服务平台必须保证有人值守。 2、要多发营造节日喜庆、欢乐、祥和的气氛的稿子，倡导文明健康向上的网风，充分反映人民群众物质文化生活丰富多彩、社会主义精神文明建设不断取得新的进 展。 3、要认真执行《互联网新闻信息服务管理规定》，严格规范新闻来源，不得违规使用小报小刊的稿件，严禁转载境外媒体消息；制止影响社会稳定的负面新闻炒 作；对突发、敏感事件的报道要以新华社、人民日报稿件为准。 4、要加强对论坛、跟帖、博客、聊天室、手机短信息的管理；突发敏感事件或群体性事件报道要关闭新闻跟帖；没人管的论坛、跟帖、博客、聊天室等栏目要暂时 停止更新。 5、做好网站技术防范，做到防篡改、防攻击、防中断，要准备安全预案，发现问题及时处置，迅速恢复。 6、事关北京的重大突发事件，要报经我办同意再发。 7、节日期间，有事儿随时联系，我们也24小时在线。

07年2月28日18时19分

1、关于华睿公司就金沙江中游水电整体开发向国家发改委提起行政诉讼一事，一律不报道，论坛、博客等互动环节不讨论。

2、关于首钢总公司转让秘鲁铁矿股权项目一事，一律不报道，论坛、博客等互动环节不讨论。

07年2月28日19时12分

各网：请清理关于温家宝总理谈社会主义初级阶段任务和我国对外政策一文的负面跟帖

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 17, 2012 (here). This post is the 40th in the series.

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Socialism with Chinese characteristics.

In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet Instructions” series to the Censorship Vault. These directives were originally published on Canyu.org (Participate) and date from 2005 to 2007. According to Canyu, the directives were issued by the Beijing Municipal Network Propaganda Management Office and the State Council Internet management departments and provided to to Canyu by insiders. China Copyright and Media has not verified the source.

The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

23 October 2006, 19:00, Beijing Municipal Network Management Office, Duty manager

Please do not reprint the Lookout Oriental Weekly article “Chongqing Civil Servants Write Short Messages Remonstrating Against Present-Day Evils to More than One Hundred People for Survey,” where it has been reprinted, please immediately remove it. This article may also not be posted in forums or blogs.

24 October 2006, 9:08, Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau Network Supervision Office, Sun Ying

Delete the video concerning the Jiangxi Gan River Academy students making trouble, please delete text and images after backing up and investigate IPs.

24 October 2006, 15:30, Network Management Office, Duty manager

Mass-type student events successively occurred in the Jiangxi Gan River Vocational Academy, the Jiangxi Apparel Academy and other people-run academies, this matter is still extending, all websites are requested to strengthen management, it is prohibited to post text, images or video information in forums, news trackers or blogs concerning the mass-type student incidents in Jiangxi higher education institutes, please earnestly inspect online situations, timely delete this sort of information.

24 October 2006, 13:27, Beijing Municipal Information Office

I. All websites are to remove news concerning SK-2 cosmetics to the back stages, this is no longer to be discussed in forums and blogs.

II. News of beautiful women collecting pictures of the lower body half of men online, is no longer to be played up, remove it to the back stage, do not guide discussions in forums and blogs.

24 October 2006, Haidian Bureau Science, Technology and Information Communication Office

Notice concerning Guaranteeing Internet Information Security during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Period

All websites:

The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Beijing Summit will be convened from 1 November to 5 November in Beijing, more than 3400 delegates from more than 40 will participate in this summit, which is one of the major foreign affairs events in our country this year, in order to provide a good and harmonious network atmosphere for the Forum, and guarantee Internet network information security during the period of the Forum in our district, the following work requirements are hereby notified:

(1) All work units are requested to strictly implement network security management systems, formulate emergency guarantee plans for the Forum period, immediately implement a specialist duty management structure, and report the name and contact telephone number of the duty manager to our office before 30 October through e-mail (e-mail: hdwj@263.net.cn);

(2) In order to guarantee that management is conducted even better over websites having established forums, chat rooms, BBS, electronic announcement columns, and other service programs, and effectively prevent the occurrence of sudden incidents, all websites providing forum services are requested to open up super-user management powers for our office’s network supervision and inspection office (being the powers to delete content), and report this to our office before 30 October through e-mail;

(3) During the Forum period, it is necessary to persist in an approval first and posting later system for posts, focus supervision and control on sensitive topics and active columns, vigorously discover harmful information, and especially where situations such as mass-type public order incidents, Falun Gong, etc., occur, it must be achieved that as soon as they are discovered, they are immediately deleted, and attention must be paid to timely preserving clues and timely reporting our office. Contact telephone: 82571260, contact person: Yu Haiyang.

Haidian Bureau Science, Technology and Information Communication Bureau

24 October 2006

15 October 2006, 10:00, Beijing Municipal Information Office

All websites’ articles concerning SK-2 are no longer to be reprinted in the important news section of the news center, posts are not to be recommended on the front page, no longer produce new special subjects or special columns, existing special subjects must be put on the back stage, new report articles are no longer to link to the original special subject.

26 October 2006, 10:51, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

All websites are requested to immediately delete the text content of “Masterstroke Confuses Bureau” issued in the “News Investigation” column of CCTV on 23 October. Related higher education institute mass-type incidents may not be reported without exception, and management over forums, blogs, instant communication and other interactive columns must be strengthened, delete all corresponding text, image and video content.

26 October 2006, Beijing Municipal Information Office

Notice concerning Further Doing Online Propaganda and Reporting Work of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress Well

All websites: Studying, propagating, and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress is an important political task in the present and future periods’ Internet news and propaganda work, Qianlong Net and all main commercial portal websites must further do propaganda, reporting, and management work concerning the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress well, and strive to create a harmonious online public opinion atmosphere.

I. General requirements

Earnestly implement the general requirements and uniform deployment of the Center, fully give rein to the superiority and characteristics of the Internet, deeply propagate the spirit of the important speech of General Secretary Hu Jintao at the Plenum, deeply propagate the “CCP Central Committee Decision concerning Some Major Issues in Building a Harmonious Society” (hereafter simply named “Decision”), promote studying and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Committee, create a strong online public opinion atmosphere for welcoming the victorious convention of the 17th Party Congress, building a Socialist harmonious society, completely constructing a relatively well-off society, and initiating a new picture for the undertaking of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, further enhance recognition and understanding of the outside world of all of our principles and policies, work measures and China’s development progress situation.

II, Propaganda focus points

Strengthen online propaganda and reporting on the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, the key is to grasp the following points well and achieve the seven deeps: first, deeply propagate the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s important speech and the major significance of the “Decision”. Propagate the deep elaboration of General Secretary Hu Jintao concerning building a Socialist harmonious society, the important deployment to implement the spirit of the Plenum, as well as the correct requirements put forward to do the present work well. Propagate the guiding ideology, objectives and tasks, work principles and major deployments on building a Socialist harmonious society put forward in the “Decision.” Second, deeply propagate the importance and urgency of building a Socialist harmonious society. Propagate that social harmony is an essential property of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, and is an important guarantee for the country’s wealth and strength, the vitalization of the nation and the happiness of the people. Third, deeply propagate the guiding ideology, objectives, tasks, and principles for building a Socialist harmonious society. Fourth, deeply propagate the series of important measures of the Center concerning building a Socialist harmonious society. Fifth, deeply propagate the strengthening of Party leadership over the construction of a Socialist harmonious society. Sixth, deeply propagate the real actions of the entire party and the people of all ethnicities in the entire country in deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenum and welcoming the victorious convention of the 17th Party Congress. Seventh, deeply propagate the fine aspirations and real actions of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government in persisting in marching the peaceful development path, and proposing the construction of a peaceful world.

III. Propaganda arrangements

(1) All websites are to set up “6th Plenum” and “Harmonious Society Construction” special subjects. On the main page of websites and main news pages, continuously strengthen reporting of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress. The special subjects must be maintained in the first position of the focus special subjects, and real-time news is to be used in the important news section to create a special subject entry point; after all websites roll out a real-time news special section, they shall put real-time news on the 6th Plenum in the first position, and make it into a special subject entry point.

(2) Timely reprint focus articles and focus reports from focus Central news and network media. The People’s Daily, Xinhua, and other main Central news media will successively publish a series of theoretical articles, expert interviews, hot spot interpretations, comments, and discussions in the near future, and roll out a batch of advanced models in building a harmonious society, websites must timely follow up, and prominently, timely, and correctly reprint these reports.

(3) Meticulously design special subject column content, strengthen attractiveness and infectiousness. All websites must earnestly plan special subjects, ensure that propaganda on home pages and main pages and special subject or special column propaganda is mutually coordinated and mutually resonating, and fully use text, images, audiovisuals, and many other propaganda methods to shape momentum and shape influence.

(4) Open up an online study and tutoring garden. All websites are to give rein to the dissemination superiority of the Internet, and provide online study and tutoring support for the propaganda of the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Committee. They must provide inquiry services for important documents, materials, and data to netizens, and may invite expert academics for online interviews under the condition of asking the Municipal Network Management Office for permission, to provide theoretical and policy tutorial services.

(5) Arrange propaganda on forums, blogs, and other interactive columns well. Constructive discussion topics may be set up, strengthen propaganda through VIP interviews, special subject discussion, excellent article recommendations, hot spot listings, online article soliciting, and other methods, to vigorously and actively guide netizen discussion.

(6) Strengthen reports on studying and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress in Beijing. Qianlong Net will set up a special Beijing column, and strengthen reports concerning Beijing City studying the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s important speech and the “Decision,” and timely reprints important articles and reports from the Beijing Daily and other municipally-subordinate traditional media; all other commercial websites must appropriately strengthen reports on all walks of life studying, propagating, and implementing the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress.

IV. Strengthen guidance and management over online public opinion. In the near future, public opinion guidance work in the following few areas must be stressed, all websites are to strengthen management over trackers and forums with reference to them. First, the nature and deep connotations of the Socialist harmonious society must be completely elaborated. Second, it must be fully explained that building a harmonious society reflects the Party’s persistent putting the basic interest of the broadest people as the starting point and stopover point for all Party and government work. Third, it must be deeply elaborated that the Party and government pay even more attention to the development of social undertakings, pay even more attention to resolving the problems of imbalanced development, and promote the coordinated development of economy and society. Fourth, guidance must be strengthened over social security, labor, and employment, education fairness, healthcare and hygiene services, and other hot sports and issues that the masses are concerned about. Fifth, public opinion guidance over running the web in a civilized manner and using the web in a civilized manner must be continuously strengthened, forcefully build an online harmonious culture.

V. Assessment and rewards. In order to encourage all websites to do propaganda and reporting of the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, the Municipal Network Management Office will conduct assessment and rewards of all websites’ propaganda situation concerning the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress. At the end of November, the Municipal Network Management Office will organize experts, to comprehensively mark all websites’ arrangement of special subject positions, special subject content, propaganda forms, propaganda and public opinion guidance in interactive columns, website and news front pages, management situations, etc., and the first three sites will be given material and spiritual awards, those with insufficient propaganda are criticized (comparative assessment and award standards are notified separately).

VI. Propaganda requirements. First, training for website editors concerning the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress must be strengthened. The Municipal Network Management Office will organize and convene special subject lectures to study the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress. All websites must also internally organize editors to focus on studying the spirit of General Secretary Hu Jintao’s important speech and the spirit of the “Decision,” to raise their understanding of the spirit of the 6th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress, raise the level of online propaganda work, and realistically implement online management work measures. Second, a harmonious network must be forcefully built, and harmonious culture construction stimulated. All websites must strictly implement laws, regulations and rules, standardize news sources, and resist false news; correctly grasp well the propaganda specifications, proportions, strength, and rhythm. The major theoretical viewpoints and major policy deployments put forward by the Plenum must on the one hand be propagated on a grand scale, and on the other hand, it is necessary to strive in terms of complete understanding and correct grasping, to assist the broad cadres and masses to deeply comprehend the new viewpoints, new thoughts, new measures, and new requirements put forward by the Plenum. Third, network management must be grasped, creating harmonious online public opinion. Propaganda and reporting of the spirit of the 6th Plenum has a strong political nature, policy nature, and theoretical nature, all websites must strengthen management and strictly abide by propaganda discipline. They must pay close attention to online public opinion, strengthen management over forums, news trackers, blogs, mobile phone messages, and search engine services, they must timely and firmly block and delete harmful information that seizes the opportunity to attack the Party and the government, attack the Socialist system, disseminate so-called major personnel arrangement rumors, disseminate illegal mass incidents and activities, incite incidents influencing social stability, destroy the unity of the nation, violate State religious policies, etc. For uncertain cases, instructions must be sought from the Network Management Office, and it must be examined first and issued afterwards.

Beijing Municipal Internet Propaganda Management Office

26 October 2006, 11:53, Beijing Municipal Network Management Office

(1) Concerning the Jinghua Times news “19 Melon Growers Claim Damages From Ministry of Agriculture,” this has been verified, the said report is inaccurate, all websites already having this news are to push this to the back stage without exception.

(2) Starting tomorrow, look for articles concerning traffic control during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation period every day, and issue it in in the important news section.

26 October 2006, 12:43, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chai Yue

All websites are not to use the word “live” for the Chirac speech.

26 October 2006, 18:08, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chen Hua

Concerning discussions on real-name systems for blogs, do not make this into special subjects, do not publish headers on blog pages, do not conduct surveys, do not engage in contention, controversy, name-signing, etc.; forums are not to actively set up topics. Concerning these topics, they are to be removed without exception from main pages of websites and main news pages, the main pages of blogs and forums, approving voices must occupy the mainstream.

27 October 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Yang Le

Instructions concerning the news “Tickets May Be Purchased with a Real-Name System on Tieliu Net ” published by the Chongqing Evening News, this has been verified, and the said news report is inaccurate, all websites that have already published this, please delete it.

27 October 2006, 14:23, Beijing Municipal Information Office

(1) Instructions concerning the news “Tickets May Be Purchased with a Real-Name System on Tieliu Net ” published by the Chongqing Evening News, this has been verified, and the said news report is inaccurate, all websites that have already published this, please delete it.

(2) All websites are requested to immediately delete the content of the text “Masterstroke Confuses Bureau” published in the “News Survey” column of CCTV on 23 October. Concerning the mass incidents in higher education institutes, no reports are to be made without exception, and strengthen management over forums, blogs, instant communications, and other interactive columns, delete all relevant text, image, and video content.

27 October 2006, 15:41, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Yang Le

Concerning the Xinhua Net news flash “145 Measurable Earthquakes Occurred in the Three Gorges Reservoir Since Filling up with Water,” all websites are requested to push this to the back stage without exception.

27 October 2006, 15:41, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Chen Hua

The information on “70% of Beijing Olympic Ticket Sale Estimate of 7 Million for Domestic Market” reported by the Beijing Evening News on 17 October is incorrect, websites are requested not to reprint it, where it has been reprinted, please delete it.

30 October 2006, 14:36, Beijing Municipal Information Office

If articles with content similar to this are discovered, please delete them immediately (the State Council Information Office is currently investigating this issue) http://bbs.people.com.cn/bbs/ReadFile?whichfile=13123062&typeid=14.

30 October 2006, 15:12, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites: In recent days, some websites reprinted reports from Caijing magazine, etc., concerning the Guomei Group chairman Huang Guangyu, which do not conform to provisions on news reprint sources. All websites must strictly implement corresponding regulations, and may not reprint information from sources not conform to regulations, where it has been reprinted, it must be immediately deleted.

30 October 2006, 17:21, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites: please reprint this text on the main page of news centers: http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2006-10/30/content_11572323.htm.

31 October 2006, 17:31, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

(1) All websites: Recently, the well-known sexologist Li Yinhe has successively published discussions on the legality of “wife-swapping” and “incest,” all websites are requested to immediately delete corresponding reports, and to push special subjects that are being discussed to the back stage.

(2) Today, some websites have reprinted the Zhang Yimou article “West Lake Impressions” on destruction of the ecological environment, which triggered netizen discussion. According to the opinion of Hangzhou City, these articles diverge relatively largely from facts, all websites are requested to immediately delete corresponding articles. Online forums and blogs are no longer to discuss this.

31 October 2006, 17:58, Beijing Municipal Information Office, Huang Jing

All websites, please delete the article “‘Glamor Community’s Selection Being Questioned – Community Streets Solicit Votes by Giving Gifts” published by the Jinghua Times today.

2006年10月北京网管办发出的禁令（二）

2006年10月23日19时00分 北京市网管办值班

《瞭望东方周刊》“重庆公务员编写短信针砭时弊致上百人遭调查”稿件，请不要转载，已转载的请即撤除。论坛、博客也不要贴发此稿件。
2006年10月24日09时08分 北京市公安局网监处孙颖

删除涉及江西赣江学院学生闹事的视频，文字和图片，请备份后删除，并查ip
2006年10月24日15时30分 网管办值班

江西赣江职业学院、江西服装学院等民办学院相继发生学生群体性事件,此事仍在蔓延，请各网站加强管理,禁止在论坛、新闻跟帖、博客中贴发关于江西高校学生群体性事件 文字、图片、视频信息，请认真检查网上情况，及时删除此类信息。
2006年10月24日13时27分 北京市新闻办

一：各网站，将sk2化妆品的新闻都撤到后台，论坛博客中不再讨论。

二：美女网上征集男子下体图的新闻，不再炒作，撤到后台，论坛博客中不引导讨论。
202006年10月24日 海淀分局科技信息通信处

关于在中非论坛期间保障互联网信息安全的通知

各网站：

中非合作论坛北京峰会将于11月1日至5日在北京召开，届时将有40多个国家的3400余名代表参加，是今年我国重大的外事活动之一，为给中非论坛创造一个良好和谐的网络氛围，保障论坛期间我区互联网网络信息安全，现提出如下工作要求：

1、请各单位严格落实网络安全管理制度，制定中非论坛期间应急保障方案，并立即落实专人值班制度，将值班员的姓名、联系电话于10月30日前通过电子邮件（e-mail:hdwj@263.net.cn）上报我处；

2、为保证对设有论坛、聊天室、BBS、电子公告栏等服务项目的网站更好的进行管理，有效防止突发事件的发生，请各提供论坛服务的网站为我处网络监察中心开通超级用户管理权限（即删贴权限），并在10月30日前通过电子邮件上报我处；

3、在中非论坛期间要坚持对帖子的先审后贴制度，重点监控敏感话题、活跃栏目，积极发现有害信息，特别对出现的群体性治安事件、法轮功等情况，要做到第一时间发现、立即予以删除并注意及时保存线索并及时上报我处。联系电话：82571260，联系人：于海洋。

海淀分局科技信息通信处

202006年10月24日
2006年10月25日10时00分 北京市新闻办

各网站有关SK-II稿件不在新闻中心要闻区转载,贴文不在首页推荐,不再制作新专题\专栏,已有专题要放至后台,新报道稿件不再与原先专题链接.
2006年10月26日10时51分 北京市新闻办柴玥

请各网站立即删除中央电视台10月23日在《新闻调查》栏目播发的《高招迷局》文字内容。有关高校群体性事件一律不得报道，并加强论坛、博客和即时通讯等互动栏目的管理，删除所有相关文字、图片和视频内容。
2006年10月26日10时51分 北京市新闻办

关于进一步做好党的十六届六中全会精神网上宣传报道工作的通知

各网站：学习、宣传、贯彻党的十六届六中全会精神，是当前和今后一个时期互联网新闻宣传工作的一项重要政治任务，千龙网和各主要商业门户网站要进一步做好十六届六中全会精神的网上宣传报道和管理工作，努力营造和谐的网上舆论氛围。

一、总体要求认真贯彻执行中央的总体要求和统一部署，充分发挥互联网的优势和特点，深入宣传胡锦涛总书记在全会上的重要讲话精神，深入宣传《中共中 央关于构建社会主义和谐社会若干重大问题的决定》（以下简称《决定》），推动十六届六中全会精神的学习和贯彻，为迎接党的十七大胜利召开、构建社会主义和 谐社会、全面建设小康社会、开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面营造浓厚的网上舆论氛围，进一步增进国外对我各项方针政策、工作举措和中国发展进步情况的认识 理解。

二、宣传重点加强十六届六中全会网上宣传报道，关键是要把握好以下重点，做到七个深入：一是深入宣传胡锦涛总书记重要讲话精神和《决定》的重大意 义。宣传胡锦涛总书记关于构建社会主义和谐社会的深刻阐述，关于贯彻落实全会精神的重要部署，以及对做好当前工作提出的明确要求。宣传《决定》提出的构建 社会主义和谐社会的指导思想、目标任务、工作原则和重大部署。二是深入宣传构建社会主义和谐社会的重要性和紧迫性。宣传社会和谐是中国特色社会主义的本质 属性，是国家富强、民族振兴、人民幸福的重要保证。三是深入宣传构建社会主义和谐社会的指导思想、目标任务和原则。四是深入宣传中央关于构建社会主义和谐 社会的一系列重要举措。五是深入宣传加强党对构建社会主义和谐社会的领导。六是深入宣传全党全国各族人民深入学习贯彻全会精神、迎接十七大胜利召开的实际 行动。七是深入宣传中国共产党和中国政府坚持走和平发展道路、倡导建设和谐世界的良好愿望和实际行动。

三、宣传安排

(一)各网站办好“六中全会”或“和谐社会建设”专题。在网站首页和新闻首页继续加强对十六届六中全会精神的报道。专题要保持在焦点专题第一的位置，在要闻区内用实时新闻作专题入口；各网站推出时政新闻专区后，将六中全会实时报道放在第一位置，并作为专题入口。

（二）及时转发中央重点新闻和网络媒体的重点文章和重点报道。人民日报、新华社等中央主要新闻媒体，将在近期陆续刊发系列理论文章、专家专访、热点解读、评论言论，推出一批建设和谐社会的先进典型，网站要及时跟进，突出、及时、准确转发好这些报道。

（三）精心设计专题专栏内容，增强吸引力和感染力。各网站要认真策划专题，使主页、首页的宣传与专题、专栏宣传相互配合、相互呼应，充分利用文字、图片、音视频等多种宣传手段形成声势、形成影响。

（四）开办网上学习辅导园地。各网站发挥互联网传播优势，为十六届六中全会精神的宣传提供网上学习辅导支持。要为网民提供重要文件、文献、资料查询服务，可在请示市网管办许可的情况下邀请专家学者在线访谈，提供理论、政策辅导服务。

（五）安排好论坛、博客等互动栏目的宣传。可开设建设性话题，通过嘉宾访谈、专题讨论、优秀文章推荐、热点排行、网上征文等形式加强宣传，积极主动引导网民讨论。

（六）加强对北京学习、贯彻十六届六中全会精神的报道。千龙网要开设北京专栏，加强对北京市学习胡锦涛总书记讲话和《决定》精神的报道，及时转载 《北京日报》等市属传统媒体的重要文章和报道；其它各商业网站要适当加强对北京市各界学习、宣传、贯彻落实十六届六中精神的报道。

四、加强对网上舆论的引导和管理近期要着重做好以下几个方面的舆论引导工作，各网站参照加强对跟贴和论坛的管理。一是要全面阐释社会主义和谐社会的 性质和深刻内涵。二是要充分说明构建和谐社会体现了党始终把最广大人民的根本利益作为党和政府一切工作的出发点和落脚点。三是要深入阐明党和政府更加注重 社会事业的发展，更加注重解决发展不平衡问题，推动经济社会协调发展。四是要加强对社会保障、劳动就业、教育公平、医疗卫生服务等群众关心的热点问题的引 导。五是要继续加强文明办网、文明上网的舆论引导，大力建设网上和谐文化。

五、评比表彰为鼓励各网站做好十六届六中全会精神的宣传报道，市网管办将对各网站开展十六届六中全会精神宣传情况进行评比表彰。 11月底，市网管办将组织专家，依据各网站安排专题位置、专题内容、宣传形式、互动栏目、网站和新闻首页宣传、舆论引导、管理情况进行综合打分，对前三名 予以物质和精神奖励，对宣传不到位者予以批评（具体评比和奖励标准另行通知）。

六、宣传要求一是要加强对网站编辑人员十六届六中全会精神的培训。市网管办将组织开展学习十六届六中全会精神的专题讲座。各网站也要在内部组织编辑 重点学习胡锦涛总书记重要讲话和《决定》精神，提高对十六届六中全会精神的理解力，提高网上宣传工作水平，切实落实网上管理工作措施。二是要大力构建和谐 网络，促进和谐文化建设。各网站要严格执行法律法规和规章，规范新闻来源，抵制虚假新闻；准确把握好宣传的口径、分寸、力度和节奏。对全会提出的重大理论 观点和重大决策部署，一方面要大张旗鼓地进行宣传，另一方面要在全面理解、准确把握上下功夫，帮助广大干部群众深刻领会全会提出的新观点、新思想、新举 措、新要求。三是要抓好网络管理，营造和谐网上舆论。六中全会精神的宣传报道，政治性、政策性、理论性很强，各网站要加强管理，严格遵守宣传纪律。要密切 关注网上舆情，加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、博客、手机短信、搜索引擎服务的管理，对借机攻击党和政府、攻击社会主义制度、散布所谓重大人事安排谣言、传播非法 群体事件活动、煽动影响社会稳定事件、破坏民族团结、违反国家宗教政策等有害信息，要及时、坚决地封堵和删除。拿不准的问题要请示市网管办先审后发。

北京市互联网宣传管理办公室
2006年10月26日11时53分 北京市新闻办

1.关于京华时报《十九户瓜农向农业部索赔》的新闻，经核实，该报道失实，各网站已有新闻一律压到后台。

2.从明天起每天从千龙上找关于中非论坛期间交通管制的稿子发要闻区
2006年10月26日12时43分 北京市新闻办柴玥

希拉克演讲，请各网不要用“直播”字眼
2006年10月26日18时08分 北京市新闻办陈华

关于博客实名制的讨论，不做专题，不发博客页面的头条，不做调查，不做争鸣、交锋、签名等；论坛不主动设置话题。关于这类话题，一律撤出网站首页、闻首，博客、论坛的首页，赞同的声音要占主流。
2006年10月27日14时23分 北京市新闻办扬乐

关于重庆晚报刊登的“铁流网可以实名制购票”的新闻提示，经核实，该新闻报道失实，各网站已经刊登的予以删除。
2006年10月27日14时23分 北京市新闻办
1. 关于重庆晚报刊登的“铁流网可以实名制购票”的新闻提示，经核实，改新闻报道失实，各网站已经刊登的予以删除。

2. 请各网站立即删除中央电视台10月23日在《新闻调查》栏目播发的《高招迷局》文字内容。有关高校群体性事件一律不得报道，并加强论坛、博客和即时通讯等互动栏目的管理，删除所有相关文字、图片和视频内容。
2006年10月27日15时41分 北京市新闻办扬乐

关于新华网快讯“三峡库区自蓄水以来发生能定位的地震145次”，各网一率压到后台
2006年10月27日15时41分 北京市新闻办陈华

10月27日《北京晚报》报道的”北京奥运门票预计将售700万张70%面向国内”消息不准确，请网站不要转载，已转载的请删除。
06年10月30日14时36分 北京市新闻办

若有发现跟这篇内容相同的文章，请立即删除（国新办正在查这个问题）http://bbs.people.com.cn/bbs/ReadFile?whichfile=13123062&typeid=14
06年10月30日15时12分 北京市新闻办黄婧

各网站：近日，一些网站转载《财经》杂志等有关国美集团董事长黄光裕的报道，不符合新闻转载来源的规定。各网站要严格执行相关规定，对不符合规定来源的消息不得转载，已转载的要立即撤除。
06年10月30日17时21分 北京市新闻办黄婧

各网：请在新闻中心首页转发此文：http://paper.people.com.cn/rmrb/html/2006-10/30/content_11572323.htm
06年10月31日17时31分 北京市新闻办黄婧

1. 各网：近期，著名性学家李银河相继发表了“换妻”、“乱伦”合法的言论，请各网马上删除相关报道，并将讨论的专题压到后台。

2. 近日，一些网站转载了张艺谋”印象西湖”破坏生态环境的文章，并引发网民的讨论。据杭州市的意见，这些文章与事实出入较大，请网站马上删除相关文章。网上论坛、博客中不再讨论。
06年10月31日17时58分 北京市新闻办黄婧

各网：请删除京华时报今日刊发的《”魅力社区”评选遭质疑 社区街头以送礼方式拉票一稿》。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on December 9, 2012 (here).

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1. China’s political system has the efficiency and consensus to produce far-sighted decisions that Washington can only envy. Faced with our own gridlock and polarization, Americans are understandably eager to find a rhetorical cudgel, and we entered 2012 repeating the line that Chinese leaders had become all that ours were not: ambitious, visionary, willing to pull for a larger purpose. In last year’s State of the Union, President Obama invoked China as the “home to the world’s largest private solar research facility, and the world’s fastest computer. “So, yes,” Obama said, “the world has changed.” And he was not wrong. But this year added some sobering facts about the haste, waste, and corruption associated with China’s Great Leap. When a bridge collapsed in August, killing three people and injuring five, it was the sixth bridge collapse in a little over a year. The authorities blamed overloaded trucks, but it turned out that the concrete had been adulterated with sticks and plastic bags, the kind of corner-cutting that Chinese regulators have found in the nation’s enormous railway construction project. For this and other reasons that follow, the myth of China’s political efficiency can be retired.

10. Local bureaucrats might be corrupt, but decision-makers at the top are carefully selected and have deep public approval. “If we speak candidly,” wrote Deng Yuwen, a deputy editor of the Party-run newspaper called Study Times, “this decade has seeded or created massive problems, and the problems are even more numerous than the achievements.” The Bo Xilai debacle exposed a gangland element to Party politics that reaches to the top, and the revelations about Wen Jiabao’s family wealth leaves no doubt about the extent of self-dealing. Inside and outside the Party, reformists are calling not only for economic liberalization but also for credible efforts to end the two-tiered society, to resume political reform, and to narrow the widening wealth gap. China faces more urgent threats to growth and social stability than any time since the uprising at Tiananmen Square, in 1989. Between 2006 and 2010, the number of strikes and riots and what Chinese officials call “mass incidents,” doubled to a hundred eighty thousand a year—and that will continue to grow until the political culture improves.

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The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

28 February 2006

Please remove the report “Drunken Police Officer in Fushun, Liaoning, Who Beat Taxi Driver to Death and Threw Body into the Wild Convicted to Death” to the back stage tomorrow.

Concerning the matter of business proprietor rights defense in Huanan New City, Guangzhou, if there is harmful information inciting mass incidents in forums, please delete it.

All websites must earnestly implement the requirements of not engaging in online civil mediation revolving around the “Two Sessions,” and not to jointly report on matters with traditional media.

Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

21 February 2006

Last Friday, propaganda requirements concerning the new countryside construction have been transmitted to everyone, everyone is requested to perform matters according to the notifications at the meeting, and make timely and prominent propaganda on the front pages of websites. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

A notice from Fan Tao was received:

1, Please issue the text Scientifically Exploring the Issue of the Scale of Chinese Government Officials that was recently published on People’s Daily online in a clear position on the front page of websites, transfer it onto and recommend it on forums, the title may not be changed when reprinting. Please strengthen management over trackers and forums at the same time, guide corresponding discussion well, timely delete harmful discussion. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you.

2. Today, there is a piece of information called “Many Household Heads Create Uproar with the Tianhe District Government, Guangzhou, Threatening with Suicide,” all websites are requested to not adopt this, where it has already been transmitted, please delete it immediately!

17 February 2006

Notice concerning reporting the postal structure reform and postal legal revision work:

The revision of the “Postal Law” is extremely sensitive and complex, it involves a broad scope and many personnel, and some professional areas directly involve national information security. To report postal structure reform, the revision of the “Postal Law” and other major issues websites are only to use Xinhua copy, and are strictly prohibited to use copy from other sources, forums are also not to discuss this. No reports may be transferred without exception on “news conferences” organized by people-run or foreign-invested rapid delivery companies and distributed information and copy. Management over news forums, news trackers, blogs and other interactive columns must be strengthened, timely remove information not corresponding to the above requirements.

(2) Do not play up the incident in which our engineers were attacked in Pakistan. Report more on the domestic concern and regard on this matter, and the work done by our corresponding departments, appropriately report the efforts made by the Pakistani side in arresting the murderers. Only transfer copy from Xinhua, People’s Daily and other main central news work units, forums may not discuss this, strengthen management over interactive columns, inciting discussions and other harmful content must be timely deleted.

10 February 2006

Received a notice from Fan Tao: The issue of finished petroleum product price changes may not be reported or played up without approval!

10 February 2006

All websites may without exception not report the so-called “new share distribution and marketization management rules,” it may not be discussed in forums, please strictly implement requirements!

9 February 2006

Recently, some websites greatly played up the matter of the so-called “prostitute diary” of a Hunan lady university student, gravely violating social morals, this must be firmly stopped. Websites may not transmit information and comments on the so-called “prostitute diary,” forums may also not discuss this, corresponding online articles, comments and posts must be immediately deleted.

9 February 2006

Concerning the “Denmark cartoon” incident, all websites are requested to not set up special subjects, do not set up trackers, please use Xinhua copy when transmitting. Please acknowledge receipt, thank you!

5 February 2006

Concerning the matter of European newspaper cartoons triggering Muslim protests, begin to cool this down, do not play it up, only transmit central focus news website copy for corresponding reporting, do not make large headlines, control tracker numbers within 200 items, do not conduct VIP interviews, if there are reports on reflections from domestic Muslims, they are not to be published without exception.

 

2006年2月北京网管办发出的禁令
2006-02-28

“辽宁抚顺警察醉酒打死出租车司机抛尸荒野被判死刑”的报道，明天请撤到后台。

有关广州华南新城业主维权一事，如论坛中有煽动群体性事件的有害信息，请删除。

各网站要认真执行不围绕“两会”搞网民调查、不与传统媒体搞报道联动的要求。

收到请回复，谢谢。
2006-02-21

上周五，向大家传达了关于新农村建设的宣传要求，请大家按会上通知做好，在网站首页及时突出宣传。收到请回复，谢谢。

接范涛通知：

1.请在网站首页明显位置转发人民网近日刊登的《科学地探讨中国政府公务员规模问题》一文（文章链 接：http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1026/4124916.html），并在论坛转发、推荐，转发时不要更改标 题。请同时加强对跟帖和论坛的管理，引导好相关评论，及时删除有害言论。收到请回复，谢谢。

2.今天有一篇消息“多名家长大闹广州天河区政府 以自杀相威胁(图)”请各网站不要采用，已经转载的，请即可删除！
2006-02-17

1、关于邮政体制改革和邮政法修订工作的报道通知

《邮政法》的修订十分敏感、复杂，涉及范围广，人员多，有些业务领域直接涉及国家信息安全。有关邮政体制改革和《邮政法》修订等重大问题的报道，网 站只使用新华社通稿，严禁使用其他来源稿件，论坛也不讨论。对民营、外资速递公司举办的“新闻发布会”和散发的消息、稿件，一律不得转载报道。要加强对新 闻论坛、新闻跟贴、博客等互动栏目的管理，及时撤除与上述要求不符的相关信息。

2、对我工程师在巴遇袭事件，不炒作。多报道国内对此事的关心，重视和我相关部门所做的工作，适当报道巴方为缉拿凶手所做的努力。只转载新华社、人民日报等中央主要新闻单位的稿件，论坛中不要讨论，加强互动栏目的管理，对煽动性言论等有害信息要及时删除。
2006-02-10

接范涛通知：成品油价格改革问题，未经批准不得报道，不得炒做！
2006-02-10

各网站一律不要报道所谓“新股发行并上市的管理办法”，论坛中不要讨论，请严格执行要求！
2006-02-09

最近，一些网站围绕所谓湖南一女大学生的“妓女日记”大肆炒作，严重违背社会公德，要坚决制止。网站不得转载所谓“妓女日记”的消息和评论，论坛也不讨论，网上相关文章、评论、帖文要立即撤除。
2006-02-09

关于“丹麦漫画”事件，请各网站不要设专题，不要开设跟贴，转载请使用新华社通稿。收到请回复，谢谢！
2006-02-05

关于欧州报纸漫画引发穆斯林抗议一事，开始降温，不炒，相关报导只转中央重点新闻网站稿件，不作大头条，控制跟贴数量200条以内，不做嘉宾访谈，如有国内穆斯林反应的报导一律不发。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 16, 2012 (here).

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The translations are by Rogier Creemers of China Copyright and Media.

17 October 2005

I. There are to be no online reports concerning the matter of Guangzhou laborers blocking the road and demanding salaries without exception, already published matters must be immediately removed, communities and forums may not discuss this.

Concerning the Wang Binyu case, without authorization, there is to be no more online reporting, communities and forums may not discuss this.

II. Concerning network propaganda after Koizumi visits the Yasukuni Shrine:

(1) Websites having news publishing qualifications must timely and correctly transmit the declarations of our country’s government.

(2) Concerning reports on issues involving Japan, websites are only to transmit the corresponding reports and commentaries of the People’s Daily and Xinhua, without permission, no copy from any other source may be used, and especially information from foreign media may not be edited and issued.

(3) Management over forums, news posts, chat rooms, short mobile message information, instant communication groups, etc. must be strengthened, forum posts must be examined first and issued afterwards without exceptions, harmful information of rumor fabrication, rumor dissemination, inciting demonstrations and rallies, organizing signings, attacking the Party and government as well as our foreign policies, etc., is to be deleted without exception.

13 October 2005

The Network Supervision Office today notified: because of the “graduate student” registration work as well as news reports concerning the “adult higher education examination,” etc., many information related to “sharpshooters sitting the exam,” “online question selling,” etc., has emerged in large numbers, websites are requested to strengthen supervision and control on information in this aspect, as soon as it is discovered, report it upwards together with the daily post deletion situation.

11 October 2005

(1) Concerning online reporting requirements on the “Shanghai Dongqian Company Arson Incident.”

Reports concerning the arson incident in the Dongqian Company, Shanghai, must not be played up by any website, do not set up special subjects, forums are also not to discuss this anymore, existing discussions are to be removed without exception. Management over forums and news trackers must be strengthened, discussions that are wantonly accusatory, distorted or inflammatory must be timely deleted.

(2) Concerning instructions on not transmitting two articles on “Tengzhou Seeks to Be Under Provincial Governance.”

All websites may not transmit the two inaccurate articles published by the “Caijing Times” on 7 October, “County Level Is ‘Losing Blood,’ Tengzhou Seeks Provincial Governance” and “How Long Is the Wait for a ‘Provincially-Managed County’?,” already transmitted matters must be removed as soon as possible, it may not be discussed in forums. All websites must strengthen management over forums, and timely block or delete corresponding harmful information.

(3) Concerning instructions on online propaganda on the “Fujian Typhoon Disaster Situation”

Concerning reporting the Fujian typhoon disaster situation, all websites may not play this up, are to use copy from main central and local news work units, and are to handle it as an ordinary news item. Management over forums and news trackers must be strengthened, timely block all sorts of harmful information of rumor fabrication, rumor dissemination, incitement, etc.

Concerning the requirements on online reporting of the “Especially Large Fire on 2 October in Some Armed Police Camp in Fujian,” all websites are only to use Xinhua copy, it is strictly prohibited to use information from any other source, do not set up news trackers, forums may not discuss this. Management must be further strengthened, timely block up and delete rumors, inciting organizations to “appeal” and all other sorts of harmful information.

11 October 2005

Focus points for supervision and control this week:

(1) All online comments aimed at the 10th National Games, the 5th Asia-Pacific City Mayor Summit and the Second China-ASEAN Exhibition, as well as information all sorts of mass incidents, sudden incidents and other matters influencing social stability during those times.

(2) Domestic and foreign online information related to the Chongqing Special Steel labor strike incident, the rights defense incident of the Chongqing Special Steel laborers, the case of the Shanbei People-Run Oil case and all other rights defense activities and mass-type incidents.

(3) All sorts of online comments aimed at the 5th Plenum of the 16th Party Congress and all sorts of information during that time on mass incidents, sudden incidents and other information influencing social stability.

(4) Domestic and foreign information playing up the Guangdong Taishi village case.

(5) Domestic and foreign information on activities and persons related to Japan’s preserving the Diaoyu islands.

6 October 2005

Delete the article titled “Police Chase Police to Kill Them–Only Because Reporting that the Police Commissioner Supports Mistress Police Officer,” its content is that officer Xu Jian from the Qinhuangdao City Public Security Bureau Port Office’s Second Criminal Section, because the wife of the Public Security Bureau Commissioner let him kill a mistress police officer supported by the Commissioner, reported this to the relevant provincial authorities after refusing.

5 October 2005

Everyone: on the case of relevant personnel of Beiqing Media being arrested, only report copy from central focus websites, do not let it on website main pages, do not issue it in the important news section, do not create special subjects, corresponding links, short messages or trackers, forums are not to discuss this.

3 October 2005

Everyone: Camp 1 of the Fujian Armed Police is destroyed by a typhoon, a number of personnel is missing, all websites are to use Xinhua copy without exception: auditing departments announced the auditing report results of 32 departments, report the vigorous reform situation of all work units more. Also, on 4 October, on 12:29, information is received: trackers must examine first and post later, and only positive discussion can be issues, forums are to be strictly managed.

2005年10月北京网管办发出的禁令
2005年10月17日

一、

有关广州工人堵路讨薪事网上一律不报道，已转载的要立即撤除，公社及论坛中都不要讨论。

有关王斌余案，未经授权，网上不再报道，公社及论坛中都不要讨论。

二、

关于小泉参拜靖国神社后的网络宣传

1、具有登载新闻资质的网站要及时、准确地转发我国政府对此事的表态。

2、有关涉日问题的报道，网站只转发人民日报和新华社的相关报道和评论，未经允许，不得使用其他任何来源的稿件，尤其不得编发境外媒体的消息。

3、要加强对论坛、新闻跟帖、聊天室、手机短信息、即时通讯群组等的管理，论坛帖文一律先审后发，对造谣、传谣、煽动示威游行和集会、组织签名、攻击党和政府以及我对外政策等各类有害信息一律删除。
2005-10-13

网监处今日通知：由于近日“研究生”报名工作以及“成人高考”等考试方面新闻报道。网上出现大量关于“枪手代考”、“网上卖题”等相关信息，请网站加强这方面信息的监控，一经发现随每日删贴情况及时上报。
2005-10-11

1、关于“上海动迁公司纵火事件”的网上报道要求

有关上海动迁公司纵火事件的报道，各网站不要炒作，不开设专题，论坛也不再讨论，现有讨论一律撤除。要加强对论坛和新闻跟帖的管理，对肆意攻击、歪曲、煽动性言论要及时删除。

2、关于不转载《滕州谋求省辖》等两篇文章的提示

各网站不要转载《财经时报》10月7日登载的《县域“失血” 滕州谋求省辖》和《“省管县”还要等多久？》等两篇失实文章，已转载的要尽快撤除，论坛中不讨论。各网站要加强对论坛的管理，及时封堵删除相关有害信息。

3、关于“福建台风灾情”网上宣传提示

有关福建台风灾情的报道，各网站不要炒作，只使用中央和地方主要新闻单位的稿件，做一般新闻处理。要加强对论坛和新闻跟帖的管理，及时封堵删除造谣、传谣、煽动等各类有害信息。

关于“‘10?2’武警福建某营地特大灾害”事网上报道要求，各网站只使用新华社通稿，严禁使用其他任何来源消息，不开设新闻跟帖，论坛也不讨论。要进一步加强管理，及时封堵删除散布谣言、煽动组织“上诉”等各类有害信息。
2005-10-11

本周监控重点

1：网上各种针对十运会、第五界亚太城市市长峰会、第二届中国－东盟博览会的评论及期间各种群体性事件、突发事件等影响社会稳定的信息。

2：境内外网上有关重庆特钢工人罢工事件、重特钢工人维权事件、陕北民营石油案等各类维权活动、群体性事件的信息。

3：网上各种针对十六届五中全会的评论及会议期间各种群体性事件、突发事件等影响社会稳定的信息。

4:境内外网上炒作广东太石村案的相关信息

5:境内外有关涉日保钓的相关活动和人员信息。
2005-10-6

删除标题为《警察追杀警察 只因举报公安局长包养二奶警察》的文章，其内容为秦皇岛市公安局海港分局原刑警二队侦察员徐健，因为公安局局长夫人让他杀局长包的二奶警察被拒绝后向省里有关部门做了举报的文章。
2005-10-5

各位：北青传媒有关人员被捕一事，只发中央重点网站稿件，不上网站首页，不发要闻区，不做专题，相关链接，短信，跟帖，论坛不讨论。

2005-10-3

各位：福建武警一营地被台风冲毁，部分人员失踪，各网站一律用新华社通稿：审计署公布32个部门审计报告结果，多报道各单位积极整改情况。另外10月4日12：29收到消息：跟帖必须先审后发且只发正面言论，论坛严格管理。

These translated directives were first posted by Rogier Creemers on China Copyright and Media on November 12, 2012 (here).

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Large-scale protests have increased in China, reflecting anger over corruption and the lack of government accountability and transparency – the kind of unrest that experiments in grassroots democracy, like the one Hua Youjuan participated in, were meant to help short-circuit.

Instead, Hua said democracy in her home village of Huangshan, in eastern Zhejiang province, was never allowed to fully succeed, thwarted by senior party officials who she accused of resisting her campaign to root out corruption.

[…] Hua’s frustrations are shared in other villages that have been to the ballot box, including China’s most famous testing ground for greater democracy, the southern fishing village of Wukan where a violent standoff over government land seizures led last year to the sacking of local leaders and elections.

[…E]ven in Wukan the new officials have had a tough time achieving their goals – partly, some say, for the same reason Hua is frustrated: higher-ranking party officials are opposed.

[…] ”If after the 18th party congress there isn’t further progress in getting back our land, more will quit,” said Zhang Jiancheng, another democratically elected member of the new Wukan village administration.

See more on Wukan and village elections in China via CDT.

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不明真相 (bù míng zhēn xiàng): don’t understand the actual situation

Invented character combining the four characters in the phrase “don’t understand the actual situation.”

This stock phrase is often used by the government and official media to describe participants in “mass incidents” (群体事件 qúntǐ shìjiàn), such as riots and protests. It suggests that those who participate in mass incidents do so not because of any real grievances, but because they have been duped by a few schemers with “ulterior motives.”

Even state-run media have questioned this demeaning term. In July 2009, Xinhua ran an editorial suggesting that this phrase should not be the immediate explanation for all mass incidents. The Southern Metropolis Daily commented in August of that year:

Whenever there is a mass incident, some government agencies will always issue statements to the effect that “people who didn’t understand the actual situation” were incited by “those with ulterior motives.” But this pretext is lifeless and unconvincing.

每有群体性事件，一些政府机关的文宣必定是“不明真相”的群众是被“别有用心”的人蛊惑的。可这套说辞却是最苍白也没有说服力的。

Netizens have since co-opted the phrase.

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If Chinese factory workers are feeling frustrated with life, that is likely to get worse before it gets better, as the economy faces a volatile period captured in an August story in Southern Weekend headlined “The First Layoff in the Last Ten Years.”

The riot at Foxconn—or any of the other five hundred “mass incidents” that China records on an average day—has implications far beyond Apple. Labor activists say that they are happening more often this year than last. A little over a week ago, six thousand workers at a Flextronics Technology factory in Shanghai went on strike for severance pay. In June, it was a hundred workers in a mini-uproar at another Foxconn plant. They are no longer simply calling for better wages. “Many of the protests this year appear to be related to the country’s economic slowdown, as employees demand the payment of overdue wages from financially struggling companies, or insist on compensation when money-losing factories in coastal provinces are closed and moved to lower-cost cities in the interior,” as the Times put it.

It was largely business as usual on Tuesday, writes The Financial Times’ Kathrin Hille, but observers say that more issues will likely resurface despite Foxconn’s attempts to improve conditions. Her interviews revealed many of the work-related frustrations of employees at the Taiyuan plant, from the obvious (unpaid wages to lack of overtime during the upcoming National Day holiday) to the less-than-obvious:

Another staff member, who asked not to be named, says many felt inspired by the anti-Japanese protests across the country earlier this month.

“It is so rare in China that you can demonstrate when you’re unhappy about something. It felt like the right moment,” he says.

In an interview with Gawker, China labor scholar Eli Friedman spoke at length about evolving labor conditions in China, including the ongoing shift in geographic concentration by companies such as Foxconn:

The major thing that Foxconn has done, which is to some extent indicative of a broader trend, is a lot of capital relocation from these coastal areas, like Shanghai and Shenzhen, into the interior. They’re doing that for that a number of reasons: the cost of labor and land are cheaper. In the interior the local governments are more excited about trying to attract investment—if you’re in Sichuan Province on the west, you’d get more tax breaks; you get the government mobilized to try and find workers for you. So a lot of these factories are moving into the interior.

Workers will now, to a greater extent, be living in the same place they work. Whereas now migrant workers come from interior and western provinces to the coast. And when they’re in these big cities in the coastal areas they don’t have access to public goods like education, health care, housing and subsidies. But if they’re back in the interior, they might be more in their own community, and things might be a little bit more stable.

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The protesters in Shifang were quick to present themselves as nothing but concerned citizens.Yet their awareness of just how to achieve this seems to indicate an encouraging shift in NIMBY [not in my back yard] protests from the past. For example, in covering the protests Reuters quoted Zeng Susen, who runs a small guest house and restaurant: “We don’t oppose the government, but they must explain the risks involved in a project like this, and they didn’t.”

“In Shifang and other recent environmental protests we’re not only simply seeing demands that a project close down or move away, but calls for openness, transparency and participation,” says Greenpeace East Asia’s Head of Toxics campaigner Ma Tianjie. By opening up the dialogue, Ma believes that governments and citizens can move away from a zero-sum game where you either build the project, or not. This sophistication seems to indicate that China’s children are growing up and banging on the door so that they can be brought to the decision-making table.

“In other countries you can expect a detailed environmental impact report to be released well ahead of construction commencing. There might also be numerous hearings, with the community involved, and ideally given the power to veto. This is totally absent in China. By law only an abridged version of the impact assessment is required, and with so little information it’s virtually irrelevant,” says Ma.

And here in lies a vital problem. While the era of social media assisted environmental protests may be highly effective in bringing together large numbers of people for a swift campaign with one clear demand, how will it manage to force China to make the kind of complicated, structural change that these protesters are quickly becoming savvy enough to realize is necessary?

[Editor's note: This post was changed to correct Monica Tan's name. We apologise for the error.]

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